Newsletter Subscription

Use this form to sign up for our weekly newsletter, in order to receive Event updates, special deals, and promotional coupons in your area.
We will not use your email address to send spam, and we will not provide your contact details to third parties.

Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. Amazon's plan to acquire Whole Foods conjures new possibilities for how consumers buy food. Think drone deliveries of organic fair-trade sugar when you’re already making cupcakes. Or your Amazon Echo smart speaker finding a recipe for lasagna and ordering the ingredients, while cranking out soothing tunes for you. Retail analysts and others say these futuristic scenarios of convenience could grow from the powerhouse combination of Amazon and Whole Foods in a $13.7 ...

June 18, 2017

Related News

You know how Jeff Bezos is looking for new ideas related to philanthropy? Well, he might be a bit too busy to read everyone’s suggestions for the next few days since Amazon just announced a deal to acquire Whole Foods for close to $14 billion. It’s a surprising business move that has undoubtedly ...

The two megabrands will combine—here’s what it means for you. In its biggest acquisition yet, Amazon will purchase Whole Foods for a whopping $13.7 billion in an all cash transaction. Pocket change much? This deal marks the beginning of an era where the e-commerce giant pushes to enter the ...

Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. is one more sign that the born-and-raised online retailer wants to be the singular place Americans go to shop, even if that means walk-in stores. For grocery shoppers, Amazon’s move is likely to bring more food choices ...

A Whole Foods Market sign is seen outside the store as the company appointed five new directors to its board and replaced its chairman on May 10, 2017 in Miami, Florida./ Whole Foods Market's stock prices rose 28 percent Friday following news that the online distributing giant Amazon was buying ...

Amazon will pay $42 a share to acquire upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market, in a deal expected to close later this year, pending approval from regulators and Whole Foods' shareholders. (AFP Photo/JOE RAEDLE, DAVID MCNEW)/ New York (AFP) - Amazon will acquire upscale US grocer Whole Foods ...

Amazon announced on Friday morning that it’s buying Whole Foods for just under $14 billion, the retailer’s largest acquisition ever. The purchase holds implications for the future of groceries, the entire food industry, and—as hyperbolic as this might sound—the future of shopping for just about ...

Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. is one more sign that the born-and-raised online retailer wants to be the singular place Americans go to shop, even if that means walk-in stores. For grocery shoppers, Amazon’s move is likely to bring more food choices ...

nothing politicians who refuse to act on gun control. In his first new “Late Show” episode since last week’s mass shooting at a Florida high school, Colbert said it’s clear that kids have now become leading voices on the issue of gun control and that “the adults aren’t cutting it anymore.” “I ...

ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan has been given a three-month reprieve by a global watchdog over a U.S.-led motion to put the South Asian country on a terrorist financing watchlist, Pakistan's Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif said late on Tuesday. Pakistan has been scrambling in recent months to ...

The Trump administration must keep threatening to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal unless the EU agrees to help fix the flaws of the deal, according to a leading Iran expert, or the EU will not confront Iran about changes to the deal. On Tuesday, Emily Landau, INSS Arms Control Director, ...

Archaeologists who have been exploring the world's largest underwater cave -- recently discovered in Mexico -- presented their findings Monday, including fossils of giant sloths and an elaborate shrine to the Mayan god of commerce. Researchers discovered last month that two large networks of ...

Several Western powers are calling on the United Nations Security Council to punish Iran for giving Houthi rebels in Yemen access to Iranian missiles. Britain, France and the United States have urged the UN Security Council to take action. The three nations have also indicated that sanctions ...

A survivor of the Columbine High School shooting has said the reaction of the Parkland victims has renewed her hope of meaningful action finally happening on gun control. Anne Marie Hochhalter said social media had given survivors of mass shootings a platform to call for change that the ...

Deputy Lisa Jansen displays photos of weapons and ammo at a news conference in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Feb. 21, 2018. Authorities say they've thwarted a student's plot for a mass shooting at a Southern California high school. The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department said Tuesday that a ...

15s for sale on Feb. 15, 2018 in Orem, Utah. (George Frey/Getty Images)/ has found the highest support it’s ever surveyed for universal background checks for firearms purchases, with nearly 100 percent of those polled supporting the gun control measure. According to the findings released ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addresses American-Jewish leaders at a conference in Jerusalem on February 21, 2018 (AFP Photo/Thomas COEX)/ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Wednesday that intelligence provided by his country foiled a plot by the Islamic State group to ...

100 Parkland students travelled 450 miles to the state capital while others at dozens of high schools walked out in support of #NeverAgain/ Student survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school shooting confronted Florida’s lawmakers on Wednesday to demand gun control reforms, as ...